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Negativity of the Wigner function and thermal effects of Bell-Cat states

Quantum Physics 2020-07-01 v1

Abstract

We applied the Thermofield Dynamics formalism to analyze how the non-classical properties of the Bell-Cat states are influenced by a gradual change of temperature values, in a thermal equilibrium system. To this purpose we calculate the thermal Wigner functions for these states, whose negative volume is associated with non-classical properties, and we evaluate how these non-classical features vary with temperature. Our results indicate that these properties are almost absent for temperatures of around 2K2\mathrm{K}.

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@article{arxiv.2006.16439,
  title  = {Negativity of the Wigner function and thermal effects of Bell-Cat states},
  author = {Vinícius N. A. Lula-Rocha and Sergio Floquet and Marco A. S. Trindade and Marco C. B. Fernandes and José D. M. Vianna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.16439},
  year   = {2020}
}